Sharifah

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sharifa

Sharifah has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Sharifah, 1994

1 in 743,000

Sharifah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharifah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sharifa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharifah means

Sharifah is a alternate transcription of Sharifa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharifah is used in Arabic and Malay.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃa.ˈriː.fa/ for Sharifah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sharifa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 145 girls were recorded with the name Sharifah between 1972 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,094 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sharifah?

Sharifah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 743,000; 5 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 515,144 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sharifah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharifah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharifahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharifah was born before 1980 — so the typical Sharifah is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 145; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Sharifah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1975 (16)
Years since peak: 50; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,094; 1975

Spellings of Sharifah

Sharifah is not the most common spelling — Sariah is, with 29.7% against Sharifah's 0.45%.

Sariah29.7%9,594
Sariyah20.1%6,500
Shaniyah9.5%3,057
Sharita8.2%2,637
Shaniah6.0%1,936
Sharika4.0%1,300
Sharina3.3%1,058
Shariah3.0%965

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sharifah around the world

Where Sharifah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2022
#5,670
in 2022
South Australia
2004–2004
#700
in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sharifah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,094; 1975
Peak year: 1975; 16 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 145
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sharifah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Shareefah Shanvika Shatifah Shambhavi Sharanya Shailynn Shaanvi Shaqueta Shariyah Shanikka Shantara Shareece Shakeeta Shakinah Sharlena Shavonta Shantaya Shauntee Shakenya Shakesha Shakirra Shanzay Sharonna Shakeera

Sibling names for Sharifah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Cary Karie Brandee Kisha Ami Misti Kesha Latricia

For a brother

Giuseppe Abdul Demond Andrea Jamey Chadwick Torrey Federico

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